The REBNY Annual

The Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award

The REBNY Annual Honoring NYC Civic Leaders

The Real Estate Board of New York Annual brings together top developers, owners, brokers and major public officials to connect with one another, exchange insights, and celebrate the invaluable contributions they collectively make to New York City. During the event, REBNY announces its award honorees.

This year REBNY is proud to announce its 2023 honorees, an incredible group of New Yorkers at the forefront of the city’s real estate industry and civic leadership. These outstanding men and women have demonstrated an unparalleled commitment to supporting a great city and its residents, communities and economy.

BARRY M. GOSIN Chief executive officer Newmark Group Inc.

Barry M. Gosin, chief executive officer of Newmark Group Inc., has led the business that operates as Newmark, one of the world’s leading commercial real estate advisory firms, since 1979. He guides the firm’s national and global expansion initiatives and oversees all facets of its day-to-day operations. Gosin led Newmark’s initial public offering in 2017 and the company’s spinoff from BGC Partners Inc. in 2018 after he guided the sale of Newmark in 2011. He has led Newmark in the acquisition of more than 50 companies and the increase in annual revenues of over 1100%

The CEO is a member of the board of directors’ executive committee for the Partnership for New York City, and a member of the board of governors’ executive committee for the Real Estate Board of New York.

Gosin is a Pace University trustee. He received the university’s Leaders in Management award in 2006.

He is a graduate of Indiana University.

Presented to REBNY members who have displayed exceptional service to the real estate industry and professional accomplishments over the course of distinguished careers.

The Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award

During her remarkable career of more than three decades in commercial real estate, Mary Ann Tighe has been at the forefront of the transformation of New York’s skyline. She has played a catalytic role in the rezoning that is strengthening and renewing East Midtown, the westward expansion of Midtown, the rebuilding of downtown after 9/11 and the revitalization of Times Square.

Tighe, who has conceived, structured and negotiated virtually every form of deal, has been responsible for more than 120 million square feet of commercial transactions. Her deals have anchored more than 14.4 million square feet of new construction in the New York region.

The Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award

Recognizes REBNY members’ outstanding service to the community.

With trusted relationships with leading real estate executives and multinational clients around the world, John C. Santora is one of the commercial real estate industry’s most experienced global executives.

JOHN C. SANTORA Chairman, New York tristate region Cushman

Santora, chairman of the New York tristate region at Cushman & Wakefield Inc., previously was president of the tristate region. In that position he was responsible for executing the firm’s strategic plan for the region. He has been with Cushman & Wakefield for more than 40 years. He was a member of firm’s board of directors for more than 20 years. Earlier in his career he was the firm’s global chief operating officer and its chief integrating officer. Before that, Santora was CEO of North America, the firm’s largest global operating region.

& Wakefield Inc.

MARY ANN TIGHE

Chief executive officer, New York tristate region

CBRE

She has been chief executive officer of CBRE’s New York tristate region since 2002. She is a nine-time winner of Real Estate Board of New York’s Deal of the Year Award for ingenious brokerage. For a three-year term starting in January 2010, she was chairman of REBNY, the first woman to hold the position in its then 114-year history.

He is a past fellow of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York’s Directory Advisory Board and a member of the board of trustees for Local 32BJ Health and Benefit Funds.

Santora attended New York City Community College and the College of Staten Island.

Chairman Emeritus, Real Estate Board of New York

Board member, The Lung Cancer Research Foundation

– Co-Chair, Business Committee, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

– Co-Chair, Real Estate Council, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

– Vice Chair, Columbia University Real Estate Development Advisory Board

Trustee, St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Trustee, Archdiocese of New York

Board member, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Board member, The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center

CBRE congratulates Mary Ann Tighe for being honored with REBNY’s Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award. You’ve earned this accolade through a lifetime of exceptional accomplishment and countless contributions to making New York City a better place. cbre.com

Presented to REBNY members who have displayed exceptional service to the real estate industry and professional accomplishments over the course of distinguished careers.

The John E. Zuccotti Public Service Award

After learning he has Lou Gehrig’s disease, Dan Doctoroff recently stepped down as chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs.

Doctoroff founded Sidewalk Labs in 2014 with Google founder Larry Page. It is Alphabet’s pioneering urban innovation company that provides products and services that integrate smart design with cutting-edge technology to improve urban life.

With the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Doctoroff will focus on scaling up Target ALS, the organization he founded in 2010. Target ALS funds research by cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral teams to discover promising approaches to accelerate scientific progress into clinical trials.

Founder and chairman

Target ALS

From 2008 to 2014, Doctoroff was president and CEO of Bloomberg LP, a provider of news and information to the global financial community. Before joining Bloomberg, he was New York’s deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding. With Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he led the city’s economic resurgence after 9/11.

Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Doctoroff was managing partner of the private-equity investment firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. While there, he founded NYC2012, the organization that led efforts to bring the Olympic Games to the city.

The George M. Brooker Management Executive of the Year Award

Recognizes individuals within the management area. Winners display outstanding professionalism in property management, civic achievement and contribution to the real estate industry.

Among her many responsibilities as an executive managing director of Douglas Elliman Property Management, Elly Pateras oversees a team of account executives who are responsible for managing more than 60 of the finest buildings in New York City, including many notable addresses on Fifth and Park avenues.

In the past year Pateras represented Douglas Elliman while working with the Realty Advisory Board on the contract negotiations with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

Before joining Douglas Elliman in 1999, Pateras was vice president and director of management of R.A. Cohen & Associates Inc., where she was responsible for developing the company’s coop and condominium business and supervising the management of the ownership’s real estate holdings.

She has served on the Real Estate Board of New York for 19 years. She was the recipient of the 2008 Management Executive of the Year Award.

DAN DOCTOROFF

This award is presented to a New Yorker who has displayed exceptional accomplishments and service in the public’s interest.

ELLY PATERAS Executive managing director

Douglas Elliman Property Management

John C. Santora Chairman, New York Tri-State

The Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award

The Louis Smadbeck Memorial Broker Recognition Award

Honors a REBNY broker with personal and professional integrity, leadership and prominence in the brokerage community and participation in REBNY’s committees.

Rick Marek brings more than four decades of New York City commercial real estate experience with him to Helmsley Spear LLC. He is dedicated to advising tenants in the city’s office market.

Before joining Helmsley Spear and working briefly at Avison Young, Marek spent 15 years as president and co-founder of the Vortex Group, a boutique commercial real estate advisory company. At 21 and almost immediately after receiving an MBA from Syracuse University, Marek began a 34-year career at Julien J. Studley Inc.

RICK MAREK

Vice chairman, Helmsley Spear LLC

The Helmsley Spear vice chairman has been an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York since the beginning of his career. He chaired REBNY’s Plaza Committee for 22 years and sat on group’s commercial board of directors for two terms. He has been on REBNY’s board of governors since 2015.

Marek co-founded the DirectEffect research program at Rockefeller University in 1992. He has been a trustee of Educational Alliance, a member agency of the United Jewish Appeal, for more than 20 years.

The Young Real Estate Professional of the Year Award

During his 25-year career, acclaimed sales broker James Nelson has been involved in at least 500 property and loan sales totaling more than $5 billion.

At Avison Young, where he is principal and head of tristate investment sales in New York City, Nelson leads a group of three dozen professionals in the sale of multifamily, office, development and retail properties.

Noteworthy clients include the Archdiocese of New York, the Carlyle Group, JPMorgan Chase and Vornado.

His accolades include being named to Commercial Observer’s Power 100 list and receiving the Real Estate Board of New York’s Deal of the Year Award and a CoStar Power Broker Award.

Nelson, a serial real estate investor, has launched two real estate funds with total capitalizations of more $350 million. He is passionate about helping others achieve real estate success and offers training through his podcast, “The Insider’s Edge to Real Estate Investing.” He lectures at Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Wharton and his alma mater, Colgate.

JAMES NELSON

Principal and head of tristate investment sales Avison Young

Presented by the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association to a member whose skills, integrity and ethics have contributed to his or her profession and the community.